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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1912
Page
10
This old style ad promotes Pape's Diapepsin as a quick cure for indigestion and stomach misery. It claims five minute relief from heartburn belching gas and nausea, with a 50 cent case enough to cure most dyspepsia cases.
An advertisement from Chattanooga Medicine Co. touts Cardui as a cure for womanly troubles. It claims improved health and energy after use, with testimonials from a patient in Medtze and mentions a 64 page home treatment booklet and special instructions from the Advi sory Dept. in Chattanooga.
Waterland Cioud Town Waterloo joins the American Drug and Press Association to offer Meritol preparations sold through its members. The firms Nenderson Drug Co and Red Cross Drug Co promote guaranteed products described as unequalled and expert made for Waterloo residents.
Washington Myers a well known East Waterloo township resident died at 3 05 am in a local hospital after an acute kidney attack He lived alone on a large farm with his brother James who died in 1905 and was buried in Fairview cemetery Funeral services will be held at Kistner parlors Friday at 2 pm with interment in Fairview cemetery Survivors include two brothers one living sister Mrs Catherine Cromling and a nephew Frank Chumrine of Sioux City Iowa Born in Pennsylvania in 1843 most of his life was spent in Iowa
The Waterloo Building and Loan association reports 7.8 percent earnings for the year and distributes it to depositors. Receipts were 228 450.05 with 7 525.83 cash on hand and total assets 446 921.73. Real estate loans total 432 150, with 410 609.66 in installment stock. New directors elected: H. W. Hartong and F. C. Wight. officers retained: President A J Edwards, Vice President Dr B E Peek, Secretary W H Brown, Treasurer E W Miller.
Portland clerk seeks certified decree in Mathew v N West versus Hattie West. Divorce granted but costs unpaid, so decree not entered. Desertion alleged. couple wed in Lirdwater Illinois September 188? and separated March 189?. Costs of action vary from 1.50 to 12 or 14 dollars. notice method affects price. Warns of bigamy risk when costs are ignored. Also includes unrelated ad snippets for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and local barber shop.
Immigrant Johannes Peter Hansen, a 24 year old who spoke no English, was deemed insane by Waterloo authorities and the U S Immigration Bureau. He will be sent to Denmark via Chicago and New York, after being kept in custody and described as mentally unbalanced. An attendant will accompany him on the trip aboard the St Louis liner.
At a meeting in the trainsmen's HQ in the Lafayette building the Cedar Valley Railroad Transportation Department organized a mutual protective society named the Cedar Valley Railroad Relief Association. More than 20 motormen and conductors on street cars in the city and Cedar Falls join. It will fund illness and death relief including medical bills nursing hospital care and medical attention. Five directors: D. C. Warren A. M. Holt Fred Feuer C. D. Cass and O. S. Lamb serve in the first year.
A 101 year old woman, Mrs Spoors, and Mr Bickley celebrated a birthday dinner with a foot journey from Douglas Street to Fifth Street in zero weather. They chose to walk one and a half miles instead of taking the streetcar, braving ten degrees below zero, proving the elder pair’s vigor.
87 year old Alford Wolf was arraigned in police court on a charge of fraud filed by J Johnson but discharged due to failure of the complainant to appear. The case may be tried tomorrow at 1d o'clock. Joseph Shurley, 28, Independence, with three penitentiary terms, was arrested for double and disorderly conduct and given ten days for the city. The editor of the Spiketown Blizzard apologizes for a previous remark about Dr Grimshaw abandoning medicine for preaching.
Des Moines workers labored yesterday to move destitute families from frozen quarters to relief stations set up to ease the hardships of a recent cold wave. By today only a few accepted offered comforts, while many families refused aid from religious groups and citizens, highlighting the pull of home and habitation.
Reported epidemic in northeastern Iowa and nearby states causes severe GI worm infestations in horses. Dry pasture conditions blamed. One farmer near Dyersville lost multiple animals. cases described as unusual and widespread for the season.
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